Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 39

Then he sprang from the couch dreadfully frightened, ran to the well, filled a cup that was standing by him full of water, and hastened to get away in time.

Who acts: door, cup · What happens: spring, frighten, run, fill, stand, hasten · To what, where: couch, cup

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, cup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sprang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 couch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 couch	det
6	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
7	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 couch	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 well	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 well	det
13	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 filled	punct
15	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cup	det
17	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 filled	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 standing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 standing	aux
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 cup	acl:relcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 standing	obl
23	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 standing	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 full	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hastened	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hastened	cc
28	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 filled	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hastened	advcl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 time	case
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	door		the couch	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from couch=Trajectory
2	frighten	participle		the couch not said here			dreadfully property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	run	past	door not said here				to the well result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to well=Result
4	fill	past	door not said here	a cup				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient
5	stand	past · progressive	a cup				by door; full property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location
6	hasten	participle	door not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	get away	to-infinitive	door not said here			time	away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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